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    In English class we read Edith Hamilton’s synopsis of the Trojan War‚ and after reading‚ we watched the Warner Brothers 2004 Production of Troy. The movie and the myth were both based on the Trojan War. They were both very interesting‚ and captivating. It was stimulating to see it in 2 different points of views. Both the movie and the myth of Troy were great. They had similarities‚ but there were also some very strong differences. In Edith Hamilton’s Synopsis of the Trojan War‚ it focused on many

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    The stories “The Sniper” and “Cranes” are two very similar but yet different stories. “The Sniper‚” was written by Liam O’Flaherty‚ the story is about a republican sniper trying to get out of a civil war ‚in Ireland‚ in the end the sniper succeeds in sniping the enemies sniper but learns it’s his brother. “Cranes‚” is written by Hwang Sunwōn and is about a man‚ named Sōngsam‚ and his old pal‚ Tōkche‚ heading to the jail‚ and on there way cranes appear and Sōngsam lets Tōkche go. But the one story

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    wants chaos and corruption. Another similaritie is they are both willing to give anything to get what they want‚ also they do not care about the casualties they cause as long as they get what they want at the end. And the differences between both characters are that joker has no logic like batman‚ he doesn’t think clearly about his decisions and does whatever he feels at the moment. Also the joker doesn’t care about Gothem city like batman does he is willing to do anything to protect it while on the

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    to show that Achilles in not the heartless warrior that most readers take his as‚ but a warrior that fights for noble causes with honor and pride‚ with maybe a few bad calls in the heat of battle. In our discussions

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    defines hero as a person who is admired for his great acts or fine qualities and is greatly admired. In the Iliad‚ there are numerous examples of characters acting heroically. However‚ there are some cases where they don’t act like a hero. In adventure writer Homer’s epic poem the Iliad‚ he contradicts about what is considered a hero‚ specifically that Achilles is not an epic hero because he is not brave‚ does not follow war code‚ and breaks cultural values. In stories there are always a hero in a

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    sacrificing their time and effort to help their child. In the Iliad‚ Homer uses characterization to emphasize that good parents would put an effort to help their child in whatever way. The main character in this book‚ Hector‚ is the famous warrior who protected the great city known as

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    favor for a price and he has a high price for favors. While the characters of Rumplestiltskin and Helen are the same but mom and dad switch roles in the story which makes it have a different perspective‚ also the setting is similar but the storyline is a bit different which makes it more exciting to finish and find out what happens in the end. In the remake of Rumplestiltskin there are a lot of similarities such as the characters are the same and the ending‚ for example the little man in the remake

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    p. 1-2 Newt and Missy are FOIL characters Newt dropped out of school and got a girl pregnant Missy wants to graduate and not get pregnant whatsoever Similar in a way that they were both born into hardships and fighting to “land on their feet” p. 2 Missy is not like the typical stereotype of a woman She fishes where all the men chew tobacco “You couldn’t have said‚ anyways‚ which one would stay right where he was‚ and who would be the one to get away‚” This foreshadows that Missy will be the one

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    What about Bob? By Jessica Kerney Word count- 800 General Psychology 02c – 9:15am Mr. Braun April 5th 2012 What about Bob? In the movie‚ What about Bob‚ examples of both abnormal psychology and humanism were displayed through different characters. Abnormal psychology can be defined as an area of psychology that studies atypical thoughts‚ emotions‚ and behaviors that may be directed to many distinctive kinds of mental disorders. Behaviors of abnormal psychology can be either maladaptive

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    their own. That’s exactly what happened when Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was recreated multiple times. Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein and the 2004 Hallmark Frankenstein movie were very similar but widely different in many places such as plot‚ characters‚ and endings. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written in 1817‚

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